rawpowerocks
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does anybody know what year roughly Gibson started making PAFs percificly for neck and bridge possitions?
what year did Gibson start doing PAFs for neck and bridge
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Funkfingers
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Re: what year did Gibson start doing PAFs for neck and bridge
Never.
PAFs are PAFs. Re-issues for bridge/Treble and neck/Rhythm positions are re-issues.
(Hotdang. Z wins again!)
Never.
PAFs are PAFs. Re-issues for bridge/Treble and neck/Rhythm positions are re-issues.
(Hotdang. Z wins again!)
Seth Lover FAN
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Re: what year did Gibson start doing PAFs for neck and bridge
gibson never made a neck or bridge PAF ...... remember PAF is only a gibson pick-up made from 1957-1961ish before they started putting the patten # on the back ....
Seth Lover designed the pickup in 1955 and it hit the LPGoldtop's and LPCustom's in 1957
gibson never made a neck or bridge PAF ...... remember PAF is only a gibson pick-up made from 1957-1961ish before they started putting the patten # on the back ....
Seth Lover designed the pickup in 1955 and it hit the LPGoldtop's and LPCustom's in 1957
Seth Lover FAN
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Re: what year did Gibson start doing PAFs for neck and bridge
the coil color was black except for a short time during the summer of 1959 when the bobbin makers ran out of black die .... and some coils were delivered to Gibson in white .... PAF's of that era can have 2 black, one of each, or both white bobbins .....
the color doesnt effect to tone ...and most of these non-standard PU are found on Gibson's made from july 1959- some time in early 1960
the coil color was black except for a short time during the summer of 1959 when the bobbin makers ran out of black die .... and some coils were delivered to Gibson in white .... PAF's of that era can have 2 black, one of each, or both white bobbins .....
the color doesnt effect to tone ...and most of these non-standard PU are found on Gibson's made from july 1959- some time in early 1960
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Funkfingers
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Re: what year did Gibson start doing PAFs for neck and bridge
The first time that Gibson humbuckers were specific to bridge or neck position was during that phase in the Seventies when the Gibson logo was embossed into the metal pickup covers. Obviously, retrofitting, say, a "neck" PU in the bridge position would have left the logo facing the wrong way around. (NOTE: The internal parts of these pickups were identical.)
The first time that Gibson humbuckers were specific to bridge or neck position was during that phase in the Seventies when the Gibson logo was embossed into the metal pickup covers. Obviously, retrofitting, say, a "neck" PU in the bridge position would have left the logo facing the wrong way around. (NOTE: The internal parts of these pickups were identical.)
rawpowerocks
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Re: what year did Gibson start doing PAFs for neck and bridge
ok so a Les Pauls from any year that has proper PAFs in it, the neck and bridge pickup up would be the same (apart from the inconsistancy in the manufacturing process). So when did they start fitting Les Pauls with a humbucker percificly designed as a neck and bridge humbucker model
ok so a Les Pauls from any year that has proper PAFs in it, the neck and bridge pickup up would be the same (apart from the inconsistancy in the manufacturing process). So when did they start fitting Les Pauls with a humbucker percificly designed as a neck and bridge humbucker model
rawpowerocks
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Re: what year did Gibson start doing PAFs for neck and bridge
so what about the 490t and 490r. Were these when they started doing percific models for neck and bridge? If so any ideas as to when Gibson first started to make the 490's
so what about the 490t and 490r. Were these when they started doing percific models for neck and bridge? If so any ideas as to when Gibson first started to make the 490's
LtKojak
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Re: what year did Gibson start doing PAFs for neck and bridge
Gibson started to make p'ups specific to bridge and neck roughly mid/late '70s. The 490R/498T set and the 496R/500T set came 'round then. Then they were Dirty Fingers, the 490R/490T set, then the '57 Classics, then the Burstbuckers.
I know I've forgotten a p'up or two, but I think I'm in the ballpark.
HTH,
Gibson started to make p'ups specific to bridge and neck roughly mid/late '70s. The 490R/498T set and the 496R/500T set came 'round then. Then they were Dirty Fingers, the 490R/490T set, then the '57 Classics, then the Burstbuckers.
I know I've forgotten a p'up or two, but I think I'm in the ballpark.
HTH,